Intel Software Guard Extensions Innovative Instructions for Next Generation Isolated Execution

This talk describes Intel's Software Guard Extensions (SGX) technology. SGX provides new tools and hardware facilities to software developers to protect an application's secrets. In today's computing environment the ability to keep a secret requires the integrity of millions of line of software in the OS, VMM, and application. SGX creates a trusted environment called an enclave inside the application. An enclave provides an ability to protect the secret without dependency on the integrity of any other code. The talk will describe the programming environment, instruction set, and hardware facilities which make up the SGX architecture.

Speaker: Frank McKeen, Intel Corporation